Web3 Hacks & DeFi Exploit Intelligence

  • $104B+Lost
  • 3844Incidents
  • 126Chains
  • 16Classes
# Project Date Amount Lost Chain Technique Links
1981 ShibaElonMars Honeypot binance Honeypot
1982 Nerve Swap Logic Flaw $537K bsc Swap Logic Flaw
1983 Nerve Finance Other $586K Other
1984 Blizzard Other $1.1M Other
1985 ChainSwap Access Control Attacks $4.4M bsc, ethereum Exploit Weak Authentication Check / Caller Impersonation
1986 Ooki Phishing Attacks $55.0M bsc, polygon Private Key Compromised (Phishing) / Phishing
1987 bZx Access Control Attacks $47.6M Access Control
1988 Vesper Finance Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation $3.4M ethereum Oracle Manipulation / Spot Price Manipulation
1989 Squid Games Drained Liquidity Pool / Liquidity Rug $3.4M bsc Drained Liquidity Pool / Liquidity Rug
1990 Squid Game Rugpull $5.7M Rugpull
1991 Boy X Highspeed Access Control Attacks $140M Access Control
1992 BXH Access Control Attacks $139M bsc Private Key Compromised
1993 AutoShark Reward Logic Flaw $580K bsc Reward Logic Flaw
1994 AnubisDAO Drained Contracts / Rugpull / Admin Drain $60.0M ethereum Drained Contracts / Rugpull / Admin Drain
1995 AutoSharkFinance Other $2.0M Other
1996 Cream Finance Flash Loan Attacks $130M Flash Loan Attack
1997 CREAM Lending Flash Loan Attacks $130M ethereum Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Spot Price Manipulation
1998 Alpha Homora Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation $147K ethereum Spot Price Manipulation
1999 Alpha Finance Lab Other $171K Other
2000 PancakeHunny Other $2.0M Other
2001 UNIYSWAP Rugpull Rugpull
2002 FlokiFarmToken Rugpull Rugpull
2003 Mystery Rugpull Rugpull
2004 Glide Finance Missing Input Validation $300K elastos Missing Input Validation
2005 OliveOptions Honeypot binance Honeypot
2006 Indexed Finance Flash Loan Attacks $16.0M ethereum Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Spot Price Manipulation
2007 Daughter Doge Revenge Token Rugpull Rugpull
2008 LionKingToken Rugpull Rugpull
2009 AwakenedToken Rugpull Rugpull
2010 SaturnBeam Rugpull Rugpull

Data sourced from DefiLlama & SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs . Thank you for keeping Web3 security data open.

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